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Roy Mottahedeh

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in New York, The United States

July 03, 1940

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Roy Mottahedeh is Gurney Professor of Islamic History at Harvard University. An internationallly renowned expert, his academic awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 737 ratings · 90 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran 4.10 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 1985 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Islamic Political Thought: The Response of the Shi‘i and Sunni Muslims to the Twentieth Century by Hamid Enayat, Roy Mottahedeh (Foreword) 4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1982 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loyalty and Leadership in An Early Islamic Society 3.63 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature by Pernilla Myrne, Roy Mottahedeh (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence by محمد باقر الصدر, Roy Mottahedeh (Translator), Muhammad Baqur Al-Sadr really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gypsies in the Medieval Islamic World: The History of a People by Kristina Lynn Richardson, Roy Mottahedeh (Series Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation by Michael Cromartie (Editor), David Bloom (Contributor), David Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Islam by Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Luxenberg 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Here he found that European learning, like Oriental bookkeeping, had its useless intricacies designed to keep outsiders where they belonged.”
― Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

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“Sohravardi also found fault with Avicenna for not going far enough in another area, the master’s critique of the non-mystical theologians of the Islamic world. In Avicenna’s time these nonmystical theologians lived to the west of Iran, and therefore Avicenna called them “Westerners” to indicate not only their geographical location (from Baghdad to Spain) but also their unfortunate lack of interest in “Illumination” offered by the eastern rising of the mystical sun.”
― Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

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“introduced school songs, patriotic holidays, and nationalistic themes in textbooks, all of which made an ancient love of Iran into a modern nationalism.”
― Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

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